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Patuxent River Park & Merkle WMA Sunday May 16, 2010.

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Shireen Gonzaga

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Shireen Gonzaga

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Mon, 17 May 2010 17:42:18 -0400

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Hi ... Gail Frantz and I drove through the Patuxent River Park &  
Merkle WMA on Sunday May 16, 2010.

Most warblers were heard, rather than seen because of the dense  
foliage. There were OVENBIRDs just about everywhere we went, as well  
as many HOODED WARBLERs -- all heard but not seen. A highlight was  
listening to YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERs as we first entered the park,  
again, heard but not seen. A CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER presented an  
interesting challenge because of a variant song, but I was able to  
make the ID by process of elimination, which was pretty cool (for me,  
LOL!).


Our Combined list (49 species, 3 uncertain):

Canada Goose
Great Blue Heron
Black Vulture
Turkey Vulture
Osprey (two occupied platform nests, several in the air)
Solitary Sandpiper

Mourning Dove
Chimney Swift
Eastern Wood-Pewee
Acadian Flycatcher
Eastern Phoebe
Great Crested Flycatcher
Eastern Kingbird

White-eyed Vireo
Red-eyed Vireo

Crow sp.
Purple Martin
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Wood Thrush
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling

Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Magnolia Warbler
Black-throated Blue Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Prairie Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler
Canada Warbler

Scarlet Tanager
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Northern Cardinal
Indigo Bunting
Red-winged Blackbird
Grackle sp.
Brown-headed Cowbird
Oriole sp. (heard from a distance, unable to ID)


cheers,
   shireen



Shireen Gonzaga
Baltimore, MD